Chapter 6 Allusions and other ReferencesAll Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.” Holstein
"We had five Holsteins, all with suckling calves. ”
working stiff nuclear winter
“Could one of the workers have sabotaged the food supply?....An envious working stiff who hated the thought of his own family dying while the Yanakakis clan lived out nuclear winter in luxury?”
MREs “Of course there was a safety net: MREs, meals ready to eat. ”
taken for granted “I stayed in bed and daydreamed, as I often did, about things I used to take for granted. The smell of Cocoa after her bath, and the way she tore around the house, rolling on every carpet in sight, grunting. ”
“Every day, wishing I could worm my way out of it, I grudgingly held my breath as I scooped up their manure and hauled it to one of the incinerators.”
“Meals had become scientific, every bite like a mathematical equation, each integer blending together to create an adequate sum, product, solution. This bite and that equaled proper nutrition.”
“We wouldn’t starve as long as the honey and wheat lasted. Malnutrition could become an issue, inviting related ailments such as scurvy and rickets. Nice.”
“Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes.
Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface.
Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here.
Place unopened pouch inside your shirt, allow your body temperature to warm your MRE.
I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it.”
“He wasn’t that up on hanging out with the livestock. His nose wrinkled the minute he walked in the room, and his eyes were glued to the ground as he took ginger steps around any dirt I might have missed when I cleaned up, even though he wore knee-high muck boots."
“I stayed in bed and daydreamed, as I often did, about things I used to take for granted. The smell of Cocoa after her bath, and the way she tore around the house, rolling on every carpet in sight, grunting. I felt her then, her body on top of my feet, her warmth seeping through the covers. She was my phantom limb.”
Chapter 6
Allusions and other ReferencesAll Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
"We had five Holsteins, all with suckling calves. ”
working stiff
nuclear winter
“Could one of the workers have sabotaged the food supply?....An envious working stiff who hated the thought of his own family dying while the Yanakakis clan lived out nuclear winter in luxury?”
MREs
“Of course there was a safety net: MREs, meals ready to eat. ”
taken for granted
“I stayed in bed and daydreamed, as I often did, about things I used to take for granted. The smell of Cocoa after her bath, and the way she tore around the house, rolling on every carpet in sight, grunting. ”
Vocabulary and Concepts
dwindle
produce
poultry
livestock
malfunction
flank
spigot
scurvy
rickets
Malnutrition
ailments
edible/inedible
Literary Devices
“Every day, wishing I could worm my way out of it, I grudgingly held my breath as I scooped up their manure and hauled it to one of the incinerators.”
“Meals had become scientific, every bite like a mathematical equation, each integer blending together to create an adequate sum, product, solution. This bite and that equaled proper nutrition.”
“We wouldn’t starve as long as the honey and wheat lasted. Malnutrition could become an issue, inviting related ailments such as scurvy and rickets. Nice.”
- “Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes.
- Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface.
- Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here.
- Place unopened pouch inside your shirt, allow your body temperature to warm your MRE.
I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it.”“He wasn’t that up on hanging out with the livestock. His nose wrinkled the minute he walked in the room, and his eyes were glued to the ground as he took ginger steps around any dirt I might have missed when I cleaned up, even though he wore knee-high muck boots."
“I stayed in bed and daydreamed, as I often did, about things I used to take for granted. The smell of Cocoa after her bath, and the way she tore around the house, rolling on every carpet in sight, grunting. I felt her then, her body on top of my feet, her warmth seeping through the covers. She was my phantom limb.”